Hypertext Webster Gateway: "underworld"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Underworld \Un"der*world`\, n.
1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the
heavens; the earth.

That overspreads (with such a reverence) This
underworld. --Daniel.

2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades.

3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the
opposite side of the world; the antipodes. [R.]

Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail, That
brings our friends up from the underworld.
--Tennyson.

4. The inferior part of mankind. [R.] --Atterbury.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

underworld
n 1: (in various religions) the world of the dead; "he didn't
want to go to hell when he died" [syn: {Hel}, {Hell}, {Hades},
{infernal region}, {netherworld}, {Scheol}]
2: the criminal class

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